iftop listens to network traffic on a named interface, or on the first interface it can find which looks like an external interface if none is specified, and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. iftop must be run with sufficient permissions to monitor all network traffic on the interface. By default, iftop will look up the hostnames [...]
Ifstat is a little tool to report interface activity, just like iostat/vmstat do for other system statistics.
In most of our schools and offices several websites are blocked. Most of these offices and schools are using a proxy server such as squid along with squidguard or danceguardian to achieve access restrictions on users. Most often, the sys admins forget to block internet traffic using other protocols such as ssh , ftp etc. [...]
Fatresize is a command line tool for resizing MS Windows FAT16 / FAT32 file systems. Installation $ sudo apt-get install fatresize How to use: Fatresize follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-’). A summary of options is included below. -h –help: Show summary of options. -s –size: [...]
Starting vsftpd The methodologies vary depending on the variant of Linux you are using as you’ll see next. Fedora / CentOS / RedHat With these flavors of Linux you can use the chkconfig command to get vsftpd configured to start at boot: [root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig vsftpd on To start, stop, and restart vsftpd after booting [...]
The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server components , by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. Modern mother boards are compatible with this standard. For a lay user it means that the BIOS settings can be watched from your [...]
Some time you will find CD images with .img extensions. IMG files are raw-data copies of optical media and are primarily used to store CDs with odd properties,such as sectors which need to have read errors when read. Conversion to ISO format removes this information,as ISO format does not support this. You can manipulate such [...]
A QR Code (it stands for “Quick Response”) is a mobile phone readable barcode.simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone (or other camera-enabled mobile) at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software installed on it, it will fire up its browser and go straight to [...]
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Follow the steps below to setup an an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. 1. Login as root: sudo su 2 Installing MySQL 5 First we will install MySQL 5: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to [...]
Xrandr (X Rezise and Rotare) is a command line utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. So, if there is any issues with your display, no problem you can fix it from a Terminal. First You have to find the possible resolutions with xrandr -q $ xrandr -q Screen [...]
